East of Eden offers a melodramatic conflict between good and evil, but more remarkable is its sense of human relations evolving, shaped by destiny and choice.
- Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
Eight posthumously discovered stories by the author of To Kill a Mockingbird are closer to a famous writer’s juvenilia than literary buried treasure.
Literature is full of dysfunctional families. We asked critics to nominate their least favourite mothers.
Literature is full of dysfunctional families. We asked critics to nominate the most troublesome fathers.
We were dismayed to see no Australians on the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century – so, with the help of 50 experts, we created our own, all-Australian list. You can have your say, too!
With the passing of Paul Auster, the aesthetics of postmodernism retreated another significant step back into the past tense of history.
Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
In The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis represents our familiar world from a radically unfamiliar angle.
David Grann’s account of a sensational murder investigation, the basis for Martin Scorsese’s latest film, delves into the mythologies of the old Wild West
Cormac McCarthy, fallecido a los 89 años, fue un importante escritor estadounidense con una voz inconfundible. En el mundo de McCarthy, la guerra y la violencia son realidades primordiales.
Cormac McCarthy, who has died aged 89, was a major American writer with a distinctive voice. In McCarthy’s world, war and violence are primordial realities.
At nearly 90 years of age, Cormac McCarthy is striking out in new artistic directions.
In her creative and critical work, Toni Morrison sought to remap the contours of American literature and culture.
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, and was voted The Greatest Novel of All Time in a London Daily Telegraph poll of 2008…
There is a tendency in academic job applications to refer to the “prestigious x prize (or fellowship)” that a candidate has been awarded. It’s a phrase that turns out to be self-contradictory, since all…
If you had to argue for the merits of one Australian book, one piece of writing, what would it be? Welcome to our occasional series in which our authors make the case for a work of their choosing. See…
American author and essayist Gore Vidal died at his home on Tuesday from complications of pneumonia. The 86 year old was the author of 25 books, including the historical novels Burr and Lincoln. He also…
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